# Sweep 1.5B

28 Hacker News commenters recommended Sweep 1.5B and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A small open-weights model for predicting your next edit, praised for fast local responses and for beating larger models on this task. Critics say its suggestions are often overeager and sometimes delete needed code.

## Why people recommend it

- Next-edit framing fits real refactors (3 comments): "Nice work the next-edit framing matches how real refactors happen much better than token-level autocomplete." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714938)) "This seems to be a far more efficient method of accomplishing a more scoped problem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719658)) "Next edit makes a difference." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718734))
- Small model beats larger models (3 comments): "training a relatively small model that can beat larger models for this important task" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717130)) "pushing the capabilities of _small_ models further and further" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721529)) "Sweep 7B is 25% point better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715698))
- Fast responses on local hardware (2 comments): "I can even chat about C code with that model with LM Studio on my Macbook at 200 tokens per seconds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717248)) "It's really impressive so far, so quick to respond on a mac mini M2." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717616))
- Works well and saves time (3 comments): "It's been working well so far (including next-edit prediction!)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734093)) "I am super impressed by the performance/quality." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46717434)) "it really saves time and effort" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375661))

## What people warn about

- Suggestions are overeager or low quality (2 comments): "I haven't been blown away by the quality of its suggestions unfortunately" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720568)) "It's very overeager, suggesting tons of stuff that I never accepted because it made no sense." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731492))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Supermaven](https://hackerapproved.com/p/supermaven.md): 10 recommend
- [Zeta 2 by Zed Industries](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zeta-2.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sweep 1.5B", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sweep/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).